COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 7, 1869.
DEAR COLONEL:—Thanks for your call and pencil note at Cincinnati. I was sorry not to see you. I wanted to hear your talk—not more than I always do,—and as I am not likely to meet you often, I now want to know where you are to settle, if you do settle, that I can have the next best thing to your talk—your writings.
Judging by our last conversation, for pecuniary and other reasons you prefer a position to being merely a disturbing element; but as I see it, the latter is your vocation a vocation in which you can do great things in the present political, religious, social, etc., etc.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
COLONEL DONN PIATT.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 69
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